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Tzvi

#1,079 in 2025Boys' name

Gazelle

Tzvi has been given to 4,218 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #1,079 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 200 recorded.

Babies named Tzvi, 2025

1 in 16,600

Tzvi over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tzvi: meaning, origin, and history

Gazelle

Hebrew

What Tzvi means

Tzvi means “gazelle”, associated with ts'vi.

Origin, language, and formation

Tzvi is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Tzvi comes through Hebrew צְבִי.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Tzvi is pronounced /(t)sviː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,218 boys were recorded with the name Tzvi between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 200 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,079 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,117 in 2020 to #1,079 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,282 in 2015 to #1,079 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tzvi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,600
200 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,540
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,079
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,491 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tzvi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,491 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tzvi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tzvis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tzvi was born before 2012 — so the typical Tzvi is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,218
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (1,329).

Is Tzvi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+79
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+38
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+203
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (200)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,079
2025

Spellings of Tzvi

Tzvi is not the most common spelling — Levi is, with 81.8% against Tzvi's 1.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tzvi is used

Across 1910–2025, Tzvi was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,846 boys, against 1 in 14,396 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

026 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,846
  2. 2New York1 in 5,556
  3. 3Maryland1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tzvi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tzvi around the world

Where Tzvi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Tzvi

People whose public names include Tzvi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tzvi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tzvi. Linked forms have their own page here.

ZviZwi

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tzvi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,079
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 38
Best rank ever
#1,079
2025
Peak year
2025
200 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,218
Count in 2025
200

Names similar to Tzvi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Zvi

Names with a curve like Tzvi

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tzvi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DovidYakovMeirAvrahamEliyahuIsmailShimonLazarusIlanZevAryehYitzchok

Sibling names for Tzvi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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